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Question 657884: If a 30-year old teacher takes a 15-year old pupil and they travel 270 miles at an average of 40 mph for 6 hours to France... How long will he serve in prison?
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Question 658043: If a rock in free fall is moving at 96ft/s,how long hs it been falling?
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Question 658033: Two buses leave at the same time in opposite directions. One bus is traveling at 57 mph and the other at 60 mph. How soon will they be at 643.5 miles away?

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Question 658052: The supplement of an angle is 10 degrees more than 5 times its complement.
Find the angle
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Question 658147: If i flew a plane that went 78 miles per hour, 4199 miles, how long would it take me?

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Question 658221: plane traveling 500 MPH with the wind and 400 MPH against
what is the speed of the wind
what is the speed of the plane in still air
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Question 658249: Serra rode 15 miles in 1.5 hours. Phaeton rode 38 miles in 3.5 hours. Justin rode 22 miles in 2.25 hours. Who had the fastest average speed
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Question 658264: If Amy can run 3.5 miles in 40 minutes, about how many minutes would it take her to run 8 miles at the same rate?
Can you please show me the formula to work this out?
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Question 658306: A motorist drives 60 miles trip averaging 20 miles per hour. On the return trip, he averaged 30 miles per hour. What was the average speed for the entire trip?
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Question 658297: Alicia walked 8 miles in 2 hours. What is her rate of speed?
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Question 658324: if you were traveling 16.5mph how far would you go in 10:15?

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Question 658478: A train 240m long takes 24 secs to cross a man running at 10km/hr in the same direction as the train. The speed of the train is?
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Question 658503: a plane can travel 3120 miles in 6.5 hours with a headwind. on the return trip, the trip takes 6 hours. find the speed of the plane in still air
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Question 658493: Jones lives 5 miles from Brown. Brown lives 12 miles from Smith. What is the shortest distance that Jones can live from Smith? What is the longest distance that Jones can live from Smith?
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Question 658539: Two cars belonging to two towns two hundred miles apart. The brothers decide to meet for a cup of coffee. The first brother stars 9:00 a.m. driving 60 mph. The scecond brother starts at 9:00 a.m. driving 40 mph. What time will they meet?
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Question 658559: A motorist drove 150 miles on country roads before driving 50 miles on mountain roads. The rate of speed on the country roads was three times the rate on the mountain roads. The time spent traveling the 200 miles was 5 hours. Find the rate of the motorist on the country roads.
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Question 658051: If the smallest of three consecutive odd integers is subtracted from the sum of the other two integers,the result is 27. Find the integers.
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Question 657891: Two planes make a 1000 mile flight, one flying 75 mph faster than the other. the quicker plane makes the trip 3 hours faster. How long did it take the slower plane to complete the flight?
Hi! I've tried this problem several ways and nothing is working out for me. Can you show me a solution please? Thank you!
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Question 657689: Two planes make a 1000 mile flight, one flying 75 miles per hour faster than the other. The quicker plane makes the trip 3 hours faster. How long did it take the slower plane to complete the flight?
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Question 658588: A ball is dropped from a builing and falls for 4.0s before it hits the ground. What is its velocity just as it hits the ground?
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Question 658653: jane traveled for 2 hrs at a rate of 70 kilometers per hr and for 5 hrs at a rate of 60 kilometers per hr. What was her average speed for the 7-hr time peroid?
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Question 658652: If your commute is 20 miles one way, how much time will you save by driving 75 mph instead of 65 mph?
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Question 658696: A small plane leaves an airport and flies due south at 240km/h. A jet leaves the same airport 2 hours later and flies due south at 960km/h. How long does it take the jet to catch up to get to the small plane
CAN YOU SHOW HOW YOU GOT IT..
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Question 658694: A freight train leaves a station and travels due east at a speed of 60 mph. One hour later, a passenger train leaves the same station and travels due east on a parallel track at a speed of 90 mph. How long will it take for the passenger train to overtake the freight train?
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Question 658715: Problem: If you are driving 65 miles per hour, how long will it take to travel 260 miles?
Question: How do you find how long it will take to travel 260 miles going 65 miles?
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Question 658752: an airplane flew in a direct line from its base at the rate of 300 miles an hour and returned over the same route at the rate of 250 miles an hour, requiring 15 minutes longer on the return trip. how far from its base did it fly?
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Question 658773:
A car travels at an average speed of 50 km/h. What distance will it travel in 3 hours?
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Question 658851: time & distance math problem two car run to a place at the speed of 45 km/hrs and 60 km/hrs respectively. if the second car takes 5 hrs less than tha first car for completing the journey, the length of the journey will be
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Question 659001: a kayak can travel 48 miles downstream in 4 hours, while it would take 8 to make the same trip upstream. find the speed of the kayak in still water as well as the speed of the current?
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Question 659004: Steve travels 5 times faster than carol. traveling in opposite direction, they are 264 miles apart after 2 hours. Find their rates of travel.
I'm really stuck on this one! please help me!
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Question 659045: A bicyclist rides 1 mile uphill at 5 mph and then rides
1 mile downhill at 10 mph. Find the average speed of
the bicyclist.
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Question 659117: A baseball is thrown upward with an initial speed of 12.0 m/s. Exactly 1.00 s later, a tennis ball is thrown vertically along the the exact same path with a speed of 20 m/s (a) at what time they hit each other? (b) At what height do they hit each other? (c) redo part (a) and part (b), with the assumption that the tennis ball is thrown 1.00 s before the baseball.
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Question 659239: a man walk 3 mph. he covers 13.5 miles how long does it take?
also a cyclist travles of 8 m/s. how far will she travel ?AND
A bus travels between two towns 16 kilometers apart. it take 30 minutes.what is the average speed.
From luca:P
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Question 659306: A truck leaves the dock at 10:00 am going 69 miles per hour. A second truck leaves two hours later going 82 mph. At what time will the two trucks meet up
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Question 659390: Lady drove to work going 45 mph and drove home on the same route going 30 mph. If her total commute took 1 hour, how far is it from her house to her work?
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Question 659529: A northbound train and a southbound train meet each other on parallel tracks heading in opposite directions. The northbound train travels 16 miles per hour faster than the southbound train. After 2 hours, they are 268 miles apart. At what speeds are the two trains traveling?
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Question 659530: Jessica worked two part-time jobs last week. The first job paid $13 an hour, and the second job paid $9 an hour. She worked a total of 30 hours last week and earned $334.
How many hours did Jessica work at the first job?
A) Write an equation you can use to answer this question. Let x be the number of hours worked at the first job. Do not solve the equation yet.
_______________________________
B) Use your equation to solve the problem.
Jessica worked____hours at the first job.
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Question 659520: Please help me with this question!
Two cyclists, 48 mi apart, start riding towards each other at the same time. One cycles twice as fast as the other. If they meet 2 hr later, at what average speed is each cyclist traveling?
Thank you!
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Question 659660: a plane can travel 1200 miles with the wind in 20 hours. on the return trip the plane can travel 2/3 the distance in the same amount of time. what is the speed of the plane and the speed of the wind?
i have already tried to solve this problem out, this is what i came up with:
(x+y)20=1200
(x-y)20=1800 ---> (1200/ (2/3) =1800)
i then put it in the equation in the calculator as matrices:
A[20 20] B[1200]
A[20 -20] B[1800]
i got [75]
[-15]
is this right? i heard from my teacher we are not supposed to have negatives but i'm not sure if i had set this equation right.. please help :(

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Question 659659: How much time is needed for a car whose average speed is 50 km/hour to travel 2100km?
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Question 659670: A car travels at an average speed of 68 miles per hour. How long does it take to travel 306 miles?
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Question 659687: X varies directly with w and inversely with the square root of m. If x is 0.815 when w is 7.15 and m is 625, find x when w is 12.6 and m is 854.
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Question 659749: If I am driving 50km\h and I have driven for 10 minutes, how many km have I driven?
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